Chapter 219 Military Supply Station
A few days later, I took two platoons of soldiers to the army to Beijing.
The situation developed as I imagined, and our plan was quickly approved by superiors and ordered the intelligence department to fully cooperate with our actions as planned.
The first step was to release the news that there was a gun-aising radar in Beijing and send our special reconnaissance brigade to escort. It should be said that the intelligence department was very successful because the Vietnamese army responded quickly. On the one hand, the Vietnamese army's radio activities suddenly became very frequent, and on the other hand, some unidentified suspicious figures were found near the base. Although we are not sure that these people are all Vietnamese spies, I believe at least some of them are. It is obvious that they are used to monitor the movements of our special reconnaissance brigade.
From another perspective, this actually means that our army's intelligence personnel have successfully deceived the Vietnamese army's intelligence personnel, making them believe that we are indeed going to Beijing to escort the radar... In fact, this is indeed true, it is just that we intend to let the Vietnamese army know this news.
So there is no need to say much about what happened next. With the order of Commander Liu, my plan began to officially start. That night, I took two platoons of soldiers to Nanning Railway Station in a car, but unlike the previous actions... Lin Xue also included in this personnel.
The reason for bringing her with her is very simple. She is a native of Beijing. She is not only familiar with the terrain of Beijing, but also a senior chief of staff sent by Beijing to our army. So it would be better for her to be the joint between our army and Beijing.
For the sake of confidentiality, we joined the army with the number of the 729th Regiment. This army happened to come back from the front line to go to the rear to rest, so we provided this convenience. In fact, after the counterattack against Vietnam, the troops on the front line retreated in batches under the command of their superiors in a planned and orderly manner, while the troops on the rear line were sent to the front line one by one in batches. This is what we often call "rotary battle".
It is obvious that the purpose of the rotation battle is to enable all troops to be trained on the battlefield to achieve the goal of enhancing the quality of the entire army. So from the car window, the station is full of soldiers coming and going, and almost all the hundreds of railway tracks are docked on military trains. Some of these military trains have just arrived at the station and get off the train, teams of new recruits with straight military uniforms and holding brand new steel guns. Don’t think much about it, soon they will step into the rain of bullets with the dream of killing the enemy and making meritorious service. The other military trains, like us, drive northward, and naturally carry people who have just retreated from the battlefield.
At this time, the station was full of soldiers, but it was strange that we could easily tell which new soldiers were newly arrived and which veterans were going to retreat. This did not mean how dirty and torn the clothes of veterans were. In fact, when the veterans walked off the battlefield and came to the station, their superiors would give each of them a new military uniform and give them some time to take a bath, so they could not be distinguished from the military uniform.
The difference between them is entirely in terms of expression and movement. The new recruits always have excitement, tension and excitement on their faces. Of course, some are also afraid. However, the veterans' faces are only numb, and there is only the joy of being able to go home. What is more obvious is... The new recruits always hold the steel gun tightly and walk with their heads raised and their chests raised. What about the veterans? Either they move forward with their fingers on the trigger, or they carry the gun and trot with their waists all the way, so at first glance, the veterans seem to be shorter than the new recruits.
It is obvious that the reason why veterans do this is because they have not changed the habits on the battlefield, or that they have been in the anti-cannon hole for a long time and their waists are a little bit straight...
"Battery Commander!" After boarding the train, Li Zhifu finally couldn't help but ask in his heart. He came to me and asked, "Are we... going back to the rear? Are we rotating with other troops?"
"What are you doing so many questions?" I replied angrily: "You can do whatever you should do, and you will naturally tell you what tasks you have!"
"Yes!" Li Zhifu responded, then found a place to sit down and never dared to say anything again.
Just like in that plan, no one in this army except Lin Xue and I knew where we were going this time and what tasks we were going to perform. It was ridiculous to say that there were other tasks that my own members didn't know, but the Vietnamese agents knew...
At 4:30, the first whistle of the military train was running through the quiet night sky. The wheels under our feet slowly started, and the scenery outside the window began to move backwards. The PLA soldiers on both sides waved their hands to us, shouting goodbye. The soldiers waved their hands to them unconsciously. The train was getting faster and faster, and the station was quickly left behind by us. What followed was pitch black, and the cold wind rushed towards us.
This carriage was originally enough for a company to use, but because our unit was special, we arranged a carriage for us, which made the space in the carriage very spacious. I took a few steps and found a place and lay down my own marching cushion.
After lying for a while, I realized something was wrong. The soldier next to me seemed to have a rapid breathing. When I turned my head and saw that it was Lin Xue who was lying beside me. In the dim light of the kerosene lamp, I found that she was staring at me. As soon as I looked at her, she quickly turned her head to avoid my gaze...
There was such a coincidence that I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart when I saw this. I would have chosen her for so much space.
But it is obviously inappropriate to walk away at this time, which will undoubtedly embarrass Lin Xue, so I smiled at her and said, "You are not used to taking the train!"
"Um! It's okay!" Lin Xue thought about it and replied, "I have also taken the train before, and I have taken it several times! At that time, we were still taking the train with fear under the Americans' plane cannon! Now it's much better..."
"That's it!" I replied casually: "We all have to drive the train secretly at night, and the car dare not turn on the light..."
"You...how do you know this?" Lin Xue couldn't help but sit up straight and looked at me in surprise.
I couldn't help but say something bad. I just kept thinking about the plan in my mind. A man who was confused and didn't pay attention to concealed it, and even went to the Korean battlefield. Fortunately, I reacted quickly, and then hurriedly explained: "This... I also heard from others. When I was a child, there was a veteran in our village who fought against the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. I have loved to listen to him telling stories about war since I was a child!"
"Um!" Although Lin Xue's face was still full of suspicion when she heard this, she nodded helplessly and lay back in the quilt and did not speak.
At this time, I didn't have to say anything anymore. I was afraid that if I said too much, I would leak some secrets. I had to turn over and pretend to be asleep. After a long time, I heard a long sigh from behind. I couldn't help but feel a sank in my heart, knowing that I had aroused Lin Xue's worries again. But helplessly, I knew her pain and why she was in pain, but I couldn't do anything...
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The next morning, I woke up when the train stopped. Just when the soldiers and I didn't know what was going on, we could hear noises outside the carriage.
"What's the situation?" I couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know!" Lin Xue and his hometown people answered almost at the same time.
Then, after a while, I heard Li Zhifu approaching the car window turn around and shout at me: "Battery Commander! There is food outside, they are fighting for food..."
"What? Snatching the food?" I was stunned when I heard this. I stood up in confusion and walked out the car window. It was as Li Zhifu said. The entire army on the train rushed toward the railway like a tide. In an instant, the whole scene became messy. Every soldier rushed in and didn't care about the food. He grabbed the food quickly and grabbed the food and then grabbed the food. He was slow to move or there was no food. Sometimes when he was anxious, he would spill the food so that the food would fly. It would be useless if the comrades who distributed the food held the small horn and shouted to his throat.
"Battery Commander!" Seeing this scene, Li Zhifu couldn't help but feel anxious. He pointed to a basin of food at the door of our carriage and said, "Those are ours. If you don't go down, you will be snatched up!"
Later I realized that this was the military supply station. At this time, the train did not have a dining car like modern trains. So for the troops who had to stay on the train for days and nights, they could only stop the train for the soldiers to have a meal when passing by the military supply station. Originally, the people at the military supply station should have been allocated, just a large basin of rice and a large basin of vegetables in all the cars. However, the soldiers who had already been snatched into a group of soldiers would not care about so many. Seeing that no one had gotten off in our carriage at this time, they came up from all over the place like a group of ants...
"Go down!" I said, we originally carried dry food with us, but I was afraid of those compressed biscuits and canned foods. At this time, who would still want to eat those foods if you have food?
As soon as I got my permission, Li Zhifu opened the door of the carriage like a charge and rushed down with a few soldiers. Those soldiers who were grabbing food were not their opponents. They were thrown out by Li Zhifu and a few like catching chickens in a few seconds. The soldiers of our special reconnaissance brigade were conscious and lined up in the carriage one by one without fighting or robbing, and they were still waiting for me to pick up the food first...
When I walked down, I saw a large pot of fatty meat boiled cabbage, a large bucket of kelp soup, and a wooden barrel of rice. I had been to a bowl and wanted to fill it, but when I saw the soldiers who were snatching it into a ball, I couldn't hold it anymore: I didn't know how long it took for them to eat on the battlefield, so it was no wonder that they snatched it like this. And the food in our special reconnaissance brigade was many times better than this. Do you still have to compete for food with them now?
Thinking of this, I put the rice spoon down and shouted to my side: "Li Zhifu! Give all these foods to other comrades!"
Chapter completed!